429: Big Red Button

This week, the FBI wants to spy on internet history without a warrant, Snapchat beats Twitter, Facebook’s CEO gets hacked, a way to stop rampant artificial intelligence, and a machine watches Blade Runner and the results may surprise you...and much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Fallout 4, GTA V (PC)

Dwayne: tech use in Beijing

Headlines

• E.W. Scripps Buys Podcast Company Stitcher
• FBI wants access to Internet browser history without a warrant in terrorism and spy cases
• Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame
• Blizzard integrates Facebook login and live video into Overwatch

Audible Book of the Week

• Warcraft: The Official Movie Novelization by Christie Golden
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Music Break: Theme from 'Warcraft' by Ramin Djawadi

Hot Topic: Mobile + Fitness

• Pebble's $99 Core music-streaming keychain fitness tracker will integrate Amazon's Alexa
• Samsung's new smart earbuds track your steps and heart rate
• Samsung May Release Phones With Bendable Screens in 2017

Music Break: Blade Runner Blues by Vangelis

Final Word: A.I. & The Real World

• Stop the Bots From Killing Broadway
• Google has developed a 'big red button' that can be used to interrupt artificial intelligence and stop it from causing harm

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• A guy trained a machine to "watch" Blade Runner. Then things got seriously sci-fi

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.